Quotes by Statesmen - Page 7

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Francis Bacon
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
Seneca
Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster
When a man is once in fashion all he does is right.
Lord Chesterfield
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
Seneca
After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
Cato the Elder
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
Lord Chesterfield
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel Webster
Men do not fail they stop trying.
Elihu Root
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
Bernard M. Baruch
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
Bernard M. Baruch
Age is only a number a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard Baruch
True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.
John Hay
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Never despair but if you do work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment where I long once more for desire.
Goethe
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
Lord Chesterfield
If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.
Goethe
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon
People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later before they are aware they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
Goethe
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard Baruch
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.
Francis Bacon
What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
Goethe
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca
Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon
Courage leads starward fear toward death.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Seneca
Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out for if people are unwilling to hear you you had better hold your tongue than them.
Lord Chesterfield
When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people.
Seneca
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Lord Chesterfield
No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning.
Lord Chesterfield
All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Lord Chesterfield
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke
Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.
Daniel Webster
Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.
Goethe
If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.
Goethe
I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.
John Hay
You must look into people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe
Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe
For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
Lord Chesterfield
Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Lord Chesterfield
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%.
George Canning